Book News: Taksim Book Club, Teen-age Memoir

Reporting big losses on its e-reader division, Barnes & Noble has announced that it will stop manufacturing its Nook tablets in-house.

A stage adaptation of John Grisham’s “A Time to Kill” will open on Broadway this fall.

The “Standing Man” of Taksim Square has inspired protesters in Turkey to form a book club in which members stand silently reading books.

Fifteen-year-old Maya Van Wagenen has signed a deal with Penguin to write a memoir chronicling her efforts to follow a nineteen-fifties self-help book called “Betty Cornell’s Teen-age Popularity Guide.”

NPR reports that while nearly half of today’s children under five are members of a racial minority, children’s-book characters and authors remain predominantly white.

Wired explains why big publishers like Random House and HarperCollins are focussing on genre fiction.

The thirty-eight-year-old celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who is dyslexic, has authored nearly twenty cookbooks, but says that he’d never read a full book until he recently finished “Catching Fire,” the sequel to “The Hunger Games.”

Strands of hair belonging to the late sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke are set to be launched into space next year on NASA’s first-ever “solar sail mission.”